The Word by Marita Golden

Author:Marita Golden [Golden, Marita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-72077-1
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2011-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

DAVID LEVERING LEWIS RECOMMENDS

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes

Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 by W.E.B. DuBois

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust

The American Language by H. L. Mencken

NATHAN McCALL

The publication of MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER: A YOUNG BLACK MAN IN AMERICA was a publishing and literary phenomenon. The book, which chronicles the coming-of-age journey of journalist Nathan McCall, struck a nerve in the African-American community and among such a diverse audience that the book topped the NEW YORK TIMES best-seller list for weeks in 1994.

Against the backdrop of intense national concern about the rising rates of homicide among Black males, the book possessed a nearly prophetic force and an undeniable authenticity in the midst of the midnineties media-generated discussion about the plight of the Black male, a discussion that was often full of more heat than light. At the time of the book’s publication, Nathan McCall was a reporter for the WASHINGTON POST who wrote with unflinching candor about his struggle for identity, his youthful involvement in crime, his incarceration, and how he found and created both a voice and a positive, new life. The book was a powerful story of loss and redemption. Since its publication, MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER has attained the status of a perennial best seller. It is the kind of book that its fans give to those in need of inspiration and guidance. It is the kind of book that evokes passionate testimonies about its ability to change lives.

Like Malcolm X, McCall found himself and his possibilities in prison. Prison is where he became a writer and a reader. Prison is where he discovered writers who impacted him in the manner that his book now affects others. I interviewed him in his home in a suburb outside Atlanta. In a wide-ranging discussion that covered everything from the dark side of integration to what he learned about writing from Flannery O’Connor, Nathan talked about how and why writing and reading are life-long journeys that have enriched his life.

MAKES ME WANNA HOLLER was followed by a book of essays, WHAT’S GOING ON, and most recently a novel, THEM. Nathan has come a long way from the Portsmouth, Virginia, working-class neighborhood where he grew up. He teaches African-American studies at Emory University in Atlanta.

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